I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.