Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

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

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

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

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.