If I think, everything is lost.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.