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

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.

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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