Fine Art Is Knowledge Made Visible.

I Am Not One Who Was Born In The Custody Of Wisdom; I Am One Who Is Fond Of Olden Times And Intense In Quest Of The Sacred Knowing Of The Ancients.

I Hope To Live All My Life For My Art, Without Abandoning My Principles One Iota, Without . . . Having Painted As Much As You Can Cover With Your Hand, To Please Somebody Or In Order To Sell The Picture More Easily.

When I Am No Longer Controversial, I Will No Longer Be Important

It Is Fatal For Art If It Is Forced Into Official Respectability And Condemned To Sterile Mediocrity.

To Be Able To Translate The Customs, Ideas And Appearance Of My Times As I See Them - In A Word, To Create A Living Art - This Has Been My Aim.