Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.