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.

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.