One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.