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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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

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

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.