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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.