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

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

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

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.