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.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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