In Art, Practice Always Comes Before Theory.

An Artist Must Be Very Careful Not To Look For Models. As Soon As One Artist Takes Another As Model, He Is Lost. There Is No Other Point Of Departure Than Reality.

Why Do You Try To Understand Art? Do You Try To Understand The Song Of A Bird?

I Paint Objects As I Think Them, Not As I See Them.

Those Trying To Explain Pictures Are As A Rule Completely Mistaken.

Everyone Wants To Understand Art. Why Don't We Try To Understand The Song Of A Bird? Why Do We Love The Night, The Flowers, Everything Around Us, Without Trying To Understand Them? But In The Case Of A Painting, People Think They Have To Understand.