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

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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

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

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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