True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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

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

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