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

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

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 objects. I believe only in their relationships.

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