· “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

· “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

· “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

· “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who thanks to their art and intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

· “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Thank You Pablo Picasso

Jasper Johns

· “ Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.”

· “ I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.”

· “ I tend to like things that already exist.”

· “I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.”

· “ One works without thinking how to work.”

· “ To be a good artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”

· “ An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

· “Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

· “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

· “I’m afraid that if you look at one thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

· “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

· “Land really is the best art.”

· “They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

· “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”

· “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

· “I wish they could only take me as I am.”

· “Great things are done by a series of small things put together.”

· “As well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”

· “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”

· “All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”

· “My early work is the result of going around that very territory where I lived and not seeing it.”

· “In the house itself, the gable is much lower then in the painting—you can only stand up just barely at the apex.”

· “The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.”

· “For as long as I can remember, I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”

· “Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.”

· “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

· “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand it, as if were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

· “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”