Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.