What Is Art? Art Grows

In Common With Michelangelo And Rembrandt I Am More Interested In The Line, Its Rise And Fall, Than In Color

A Person Himself Believes That All The Other Portraits Are Good Likenesses Except The One Of Himself.

Painting Picture By Picture, I Followed The Impressions My Eye Took In At Heightened Moments. I Painted Only Memories, Adding Nothing, No Details That I Did Not See. Hence The Simplicity Of The Paintings, Their Emptiness.

It Is Better To Have A Good Painting With Ten Holes Than Ten Bad Paintings Without Any Holes.

The Notes I Have Made Are Not A Diary In The Ordinary Sense, But Partly Lengthy Records Of My Spiritual Experiences, And Partly Poems In Prose.