A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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