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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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