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.

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

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