The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

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.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.