The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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