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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.