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

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.