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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.