Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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