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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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