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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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