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

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 purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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.

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

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