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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

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