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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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

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

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.