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.

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

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

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.