Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people’s faces are painted green and red.

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.

I realized that the “thing” and the “concept” were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes...

Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in...

Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

A painted surface is a real, living form.