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

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

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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

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

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

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

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