Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Everything starts from a dot.

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

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

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

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

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

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

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me.