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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

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

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

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