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.

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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.

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

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.