"I am against ease. If one leaves the possibilities of getting a pension from the government for painting, to all the people who want to paint, all the Sunday painters will seize a brush. That is impos…"

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides…"

"A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject matter."

"Exactitude is not truth."

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free."