Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's a serious part of our lives.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Aesthetic is the salvation of the world.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
In every work of art, the artist himself is present.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.