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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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