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

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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