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

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

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

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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

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

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