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

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

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

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

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.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.