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

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

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.