You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.