As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

An art book is a museum without walls.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.