The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.