Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.