To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.