All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.