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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.