I Too Am A Government.

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.

I Hope To Live All My Life For My Art, Without Abandoning My Principles One Iota.

Beauty Lies In Nature And Reveals, Once The Artist Has Perceived It, Its Own Expressive Power.

The State Is Not Competent In Artistic Matters... When The State Leaves Us Free, It Will Have Carried Out Its Duty.

Painting Is An Essentially Concrete Art And Can Only Consist Of The Representation Of Real And Existing Things. It Is A Completely Physical Language, The Words Of Which Consist Of All Visible Objects. An Object Which Is Abstract, Not Visible, Non-existent, Is Not Within The Realm Of Painting.