Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
An army marches on its stomach.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, “As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.”
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
Art is my life and my life is art.
Art is a way of survival.
Doubt is only removed by action. If you’re not working then that’s when doubt comes in.
There are people who focus on the game and forget about the art. There’s that specific special individual who can do both.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.