To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

All they want is to point a finger.

Love knows all.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Our vision was to serve the whole area

Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.