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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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