The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.