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

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

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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.