Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

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

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.