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

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

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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