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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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.

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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.