Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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