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.

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 don't take a photograph, you make it.