Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.