The eyes are hammers.

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.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Talents constitute our very essence.

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.