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

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

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.

There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.

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.