After all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gaps, but there is something in it of what wood or beech or figure has told me, and it is not a tame or conventional language, that proceeds not from nature itself but from a studied manner or a system.

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he do…

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music b…

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

As has been said...it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words.