All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

The important thing is somehow to begin.