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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

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