The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an 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.

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

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

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