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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.