Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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

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

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