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

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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

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

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.

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.