Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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.
ART, JOY IN CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND KNOWLEDGE
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 aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.