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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

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