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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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