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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.