An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.