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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.