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

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

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.

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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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