Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

You don't make art, you find it

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

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

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.