Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.