A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

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

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.