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

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

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

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

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

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