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 guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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