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.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

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.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

The eyes are hammers.

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