Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

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

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.