I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.