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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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