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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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