Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.