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

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

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.