The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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