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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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.

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