“Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

We don’t grow older we grow riper.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It takes a long time to become young.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

Look your best – who said love is blind?

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.