“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”

“Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.”

“Every song is like a painting.”

“Entertainment and art are not isolated.”

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”

“I am not strong on perfection.”

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

“I start a picture and I finish it.”