If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

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.

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.