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.

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

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

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

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.