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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.