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

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

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

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

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.