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

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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