The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Art is the soul of a people.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.