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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.