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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.