Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.