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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.