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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.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

I have a good deal of experience at drawing ghosts and monsters, but I don’t think I could do a whole book of them.

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Music is the most powerful form of communication.