Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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

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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

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

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