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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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.

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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