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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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