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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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.