Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.