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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

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

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