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.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

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

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