"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people."
"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing."
"If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul."
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved it until I set him free."
"I don’t think about working art when I work, I try to think about life."
"Painting is poetry that is seen instead of felt and poetry is a painting that is felt instead of seen."