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

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

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.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.