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.

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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.

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.