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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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