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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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.

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

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

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