The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.