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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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.