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

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

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.