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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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