A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

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.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.