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.

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

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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.