The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Anything can be painted without representation.