Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

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.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

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.