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

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

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

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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.