Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make i…

Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the ob…

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.