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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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