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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.