Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

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.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue