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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

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

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

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