The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

I have never painted a recent picture.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.