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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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