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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

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