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

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

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

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.

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

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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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