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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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