See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.