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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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