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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

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.