Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.