Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
The earth doesn’t have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers – dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn’t have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
In art, practice always comes before theory.
I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
Don’t waste your youth growing up.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
Art isn’t done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.