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

… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

The eyes are hammers.

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

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Color cannot stand alone.

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.