I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.