Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

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.

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.