Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

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

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

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.