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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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