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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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