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

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

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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