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!

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Becoming is superior to being.

Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.