"The more horrible this world (as today, for instance) [first year of World War 1.], the more abstract our art, wherea…"

"My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces…"

"Twenty-one years old! I never doubted my vital force. But how is it to fare with my chosen art? The recognition that …"

"You know what I want to become temporarily today: a painter? No. A simple and common designer. But a biting one. I wo…"

"Music, for me, is a love bewitched. / Fame as a painter? / Writer, modern poet? Bad joke. / So I have no calling, and…"

"The conviction that painting is the right profession grows stronger and stronger in me. Writing is the only other thi…"

"The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles)."

"To be a student of Stuck [1898 - 1900] sounded good. In reality, however, it was not half so splendid. Instead of com…"

"..I served Beauty by drawing her enemies."

"Thoughts about the art of portraiture. Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that …"