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

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

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

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