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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

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

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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