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

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

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.