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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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