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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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