You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

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.

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

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

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.