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.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

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.

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