In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea. . . The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.
Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!