An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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