“Vision is the true creative rhythm.”

“I am not strong on perfection.”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”

“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.”

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”

“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”

“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”

“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”

“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”

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