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.

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

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

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

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.