The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

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

A picture is a poem without words.

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

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

Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.