Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

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.

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.