“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”

“When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.”

“Paint the essential character of things.”

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.”

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.”

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

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

“Things are beautiful if you love them.”

“What is art but a way of seeing?”

“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”