Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is… always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one’s own, in one’s relation to the tool, the material and the...

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks… Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud...

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

I do not consider self-expression as important. It’s not important as a method of teaching. And it’s not important as an aim of any art branch.