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

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

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

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