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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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