To be an artist is to be constantly in search of truth.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

The great artist is the simplifier.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I’m not an industry artist – I’m an artist in the industry.

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Artistry is not about pleasing anyone, it’s about expressing yourself.

Art should awaken the imagination, not simply replicate what the eye sees.

The artist must cultivate an eye that can see both what is there and what is not.

In the end, the work itself speaks louder than the artist’s intentions.

Art is a struggle between the intuition of the soul and the labor of the hands.

Taste! It doesn’t exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

A true artist does not wait for inspiration; he creates it.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.