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 aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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