To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only..

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin..

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible..

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth..

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers..

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want ….

Becoming is superior to being..

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones..

Genius is the error in the system..

In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when….

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for….

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see..

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art..

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke..

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk..

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more prof….

A line is a dot that went for a walk..

My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues ….

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in th….

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they f….

The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself..