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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

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

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

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

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

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.