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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

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.

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