Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.