I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt..

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mo….

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or backgr….

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow..

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason..

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circum….

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels..

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first..

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation..

The dream of reason produces monsters.