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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.