Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.