You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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