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

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.