Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.