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

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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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