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.

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.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

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.