It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.