I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates..

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece..

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings ….

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality ….

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you….

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction..

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions..

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation..

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue..

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams..

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it..

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul..

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you….

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting..

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several..

The work of a man is the explanation of the man..

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite..

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; ….

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique..