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.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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