Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.