“I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.”

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

When I haven’t any blue I use red.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse, but surely you will see the wildness!

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons.

It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.

If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.