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.

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, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

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.