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.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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