The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
The act of creation is an act of defiance.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.