I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.