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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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