If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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 man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
a man paints, his brains, his hands, art
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.