art

The new Earth is not reached through effort. It is stabilized through coherence.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creativity takes courage.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.