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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.