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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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.

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