Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.