The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
a man paints, his brains, his hands, art
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.