The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.