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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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