Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.