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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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