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

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

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.