Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.