Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.