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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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