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

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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.

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.

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

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