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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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