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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.