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

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

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

If I think, I am lost.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.