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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.