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

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

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

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.

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

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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

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