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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.