Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing