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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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