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

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

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

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

… 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?

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.

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