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

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.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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

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

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

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

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