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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don’t notice it. You get tired of it, even if it’s a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don’t want to be sold.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.