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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

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