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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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