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

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

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

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

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.