Fine art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart go together.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Every artist was at first an amateur.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

Until I saw Chardin's paintings, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!