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.

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

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.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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