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

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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.