Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is the daughter of freedom.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Creativity takes courage.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Every artist was first an amateur.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.