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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.