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

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

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.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.