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

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

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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.