The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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.