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

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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

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

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.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.