Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

To the knights of faith nobody believes.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Darkness is the only place, where chaos and peace always met and fell in love with each other.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.