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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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