In A Tree There Is A Spirit

It Is Harder To See Than It Is To Express. The Whole Value Of Art Rests In The Artist's Ability To See Well Into What Is Before Him. ... The Model Will Serve Equally For A Rembrandt Drawing Or For Anybody's Magazine Cover. A Genius Is One Who Can See. The Others Can Often 'draw' Remarkably Well. ... Those Who Get Their Technique First, Expecting Sight To Come To Them Later, Get A Technique Of A Very Ready-made Order.

Art Is, After All, Only A Trace – Like A Footprint Which Shows That One Has Walked Bravely And In Great Happiness.

To Have Ideas One Must Have Imagination. To Express Ideas One Must Have Science.

Color Is Only Beautiful When It Means Something.

Today Must Not Be A Souvenir Of Yesterday, And So The Struggle Is Everlasting. Who Am I Today? What Do I See Today? How Shall I Use What I Know, And How Shall I Avoid Being Victim Of What I Know? Life Is Not Repetition.