Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.