I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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