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

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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

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