In every work of art, the spirit of the age and the individual artist combine to produce a phenomenon that is ever new, diverse, and unique.
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
The more I paint, the more I like everything.
Art is the most sublime mission of man since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.