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

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.

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

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

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

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

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