Art is the most beautiful of all passions, and passion the most beautiful of all arts.
Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined in freedom.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Art is the proper task of life.
The painter tries to master color, while the chef has to master taste.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Art is the only way to run without leaving home.