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

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

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

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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

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