Objects damage pictures.

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

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

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

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

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.