The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.