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

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

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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.