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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

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

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