People think that they see, but they don't.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.