...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.