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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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.