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

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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