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.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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