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

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

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

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

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.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.