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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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