The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty,you know you're an artist. - Martin Gayford

Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You have to look and to work. That’s exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That’s what you need.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

It's the very process of looking at something that makes it beautiful.