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

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

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

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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