If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

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.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

He who thinks little errs much.