
The painter tries to master color, but color is the master of the painter.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Every artist was first an amateur.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself.
The more I paint, the more I like everything.
Art is the daughter of freedom.