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

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

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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