Through a painting we can see the whole world.

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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

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