The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.