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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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