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

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

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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.

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

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

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