“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...”

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”

“Poznanie, ktoré sme raz dosiahli, má zvláštnu vlastnosť... akosi ho už nemožno vziať naspäť, nemožno ho vymazať z dejín ľudstva, možno ho len prekonávať poznaním ďalším, hlbším.”

“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

“It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”