Bad Artists Copy. Good Artists Steal.

Unless Your Work Gives You Trouble, It Is No Good.

I Understand My Own Pictures Best Six Months After I Have Done Them.

It Isn't Up To The Painter To Define The Symbols. Otherwise It Would Be Better If He Wrote Them Out In So Many Words! The Public Who Look At The Picture Must Interpret The Symbols As They Understand Them.

...art Is Something Subversive. It's Something That Should Not Be Free. Art And Liberty, Like The Fire Of Prometheus, Are Things That One Must Steal, To Be Used Against The Established Order.

Learn The Rules Like A Pro, So You Can Break Them Like An Artist.