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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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

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

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

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