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Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

I have no one style.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.

When you do something with your heart, that’s when you’re truly creating art.

To me, the musical is best when it’s a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that’s what the musical does best.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?