If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
The source of genius is imagination alone.
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.