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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.