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

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.

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

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

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

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.