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.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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.

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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