There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.