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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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.

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