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

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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