Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.