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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.