When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Draw bamboos for ten years, become a bamboo, then forget all about bamboos when you are drawing.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

A man who works with his hands is a labourer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

If you ask me what I have come to do in the world, I who am an artist, I will reply: 'I am here to live aloud.'

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

An artist is his own fault.

He will lie even when it is inconvenient; the sign of the true artist.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.