Art is a jealous mistress ...

Every artist was at first an amateur.

washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

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

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and ... he does it without destroying something else.

We have art in order not to die of life.

My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.