Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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