“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.”

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”

“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”

“Form follows function.”

“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“In art, the obvious is a sin.”