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

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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

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

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

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