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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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