"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth, when all the world is new to it."

"An artist must possess nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare him for the mastery of the great universal rhythm."

"All the artists who began by being hungry and cold have made good painting. Everybody, Picasso, Magritte, Rouault and myself, all began like that. The facts signify something."

"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."

"I only paint the difference between things."