It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.