We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Everybody has their reasons.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.