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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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