“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there”

“A Good artist has less time than ideas.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”

“Every good painter paints what he is”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ”

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing”

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy”

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. ”

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ”

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ”

“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”

“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

“If you could say it in words, there'd be no reason to paint.”

“Eighty percent of success is showing up”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up”

“Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.”

“In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”