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.

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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

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

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