The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence..

I have a feeling only for shadows.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art..

The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, alw….

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate..

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops..

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt..

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories..

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility..

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it..

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit..

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on..

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined..

I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left ….

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the ….

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them..

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible..

True art lies in a reality that is felt..

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour..

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts..

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious..