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 freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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.

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.