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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

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

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.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.