The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Joy always came after pain.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.