Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.