“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

“The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.”

“Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!”

“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”

“Art is either revolution or plagiarism”

“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”