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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.