No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Basically the French are all peasants.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

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.