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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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.

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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