Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

If I think, I am lost.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.