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

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

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

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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