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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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