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

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.

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.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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