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

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

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.

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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

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

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