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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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