After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Art is an escape from reality.

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.