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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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.

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.