I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.