If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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