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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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