“An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.”

“I guess I didn’t enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.”

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

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