The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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

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 man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

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

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

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