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

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor