“From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.”

“Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”

“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

“Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.”

“Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”

“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”

“I think about my work every minute of the day.”

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.”