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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

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

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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