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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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