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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

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

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