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

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

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

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

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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

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

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