1. “To create a work of art is to create the world.”
2. “Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. otherwise one would profane one’s ow powerful solution.”
3. “Objects damage pictures.”
4. “Music is the ultimate teacher.”
5. “Each period of civilization creates an art that is specific in it and which w will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.”
6. “Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.”
7. “All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.”
8. “The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.”
9. “Color transmits and translates emotion.”
10. ‘The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.”
11. “The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.”
12. “Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.”
13. “Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.”
14. “The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.”
15. “Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.”
16. “Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.”
17. “In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self satisfied, immovable, narrow.”
18. “Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.”
19. “Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.”
20. “Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.”
21. “Color cannot stand alone.”
22. “There is no must in art because art is free.”
23. “I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.”
24. “The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.”
25. “Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.”
26. “The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.”
27. “Everything starts from a dot.”
28. “That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
29. “In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiam and inspiration.”
30. “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”
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