Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.