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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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