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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

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

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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