“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”
“Either everything in man can be traced as a development from below, or something must come from above. There is no avoiding that dilemma: you must be either a naturalist or a supernaturalist.”
“Reality is something you must rise above.”
“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”