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

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

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

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

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

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