To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

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

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

Becoming is superior to being.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.