If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then do not write, because our culture has no use for it.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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

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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

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

Art is not a thing it is a way.

You do not take a photograph, you make it.

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

A picture is a poem without words.

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

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people do not need to have.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.