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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

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

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

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

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

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