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

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

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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