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

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.