The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.