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.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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