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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.