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.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.