“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”

“In art, the obvious is a sin.”

“Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

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

“All great art is born of the metropolis.”

“Art is anything people do with distinction.”

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

“Art is born of humiliation.”

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

“My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.”

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”