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.

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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