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.

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.

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.