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

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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