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

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.

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

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

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

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 freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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