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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.