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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.