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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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