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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.