Art is the journey of a free soul.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Art is the lie that makes us realize truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.