The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.