Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

Instantaneity is photography.