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

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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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