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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

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

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

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

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

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