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

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.