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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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