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

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

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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

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

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