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

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

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

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