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

Pablo Picasso

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

Thomas Merton

ourselves, enables, art

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

art,imagine

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

essence, beautiful art, great art, gratitude

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

Oscar Wilde

intense, art

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

Albert Einstein

ART, JOY IN CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND KNOWLEDGE

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

artist, things, really

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

Albert Camus

guilty, art, confession

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde

ART, REALISE OUR PERFECTION