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

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

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.