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

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.

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.