There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

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

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

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.

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.

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

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.