The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.
One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.
And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around.
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.