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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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