Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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 not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

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

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