Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

I don't seek, I find.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.