A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

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.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

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.

An artist is an explorer.

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

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.