“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”

“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”

“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.”

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”

“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”

“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”

“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”