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

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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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