I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.

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

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

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

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