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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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