The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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.

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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