True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.