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

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to 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.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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