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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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