The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The more I paint, the more I like everything.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
To be an artist is to believe in life.
I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The great artist is the simplifier.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.