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

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.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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

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

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.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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