Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.