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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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