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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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