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.

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

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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

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