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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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