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

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

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.

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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

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

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