Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile 'eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

A women's heart beat is very rapid; it jumps from love to hate, in seconds when in silence there is surely madness.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.