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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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.

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

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

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