If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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

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

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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