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.

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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