Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

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

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

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