The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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

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

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.