Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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