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

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

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

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

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

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 most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

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