An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

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

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.