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.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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.

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