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.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

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

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

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