“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”