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.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.