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

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

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

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

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

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

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

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

“Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.”

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”

“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”