Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

I have sworn to die painting.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.