The principal person in a picture is light.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.