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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.