Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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.

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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 - things I had no words for.

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

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