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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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