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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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.