A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

Nobody is a real loser-until they start blaming somebody else.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.