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

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.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.