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

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

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

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

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

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.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.