Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?