Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.