All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.