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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

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.

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

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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