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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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