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A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.