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 beginning is the most important part of the work.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

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

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

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.