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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

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