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.

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.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.