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

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

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.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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