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

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

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

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

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.