Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
