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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.