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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

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