One Must Not Imitate What One Wants

Take The Birds Which You'll Have Noticed In So Many Of My Recent Paintings. I Never Thought Them Up, They Just Materialized Of Their Own Accord; They Were Born On The Canvas... It Is Absurd To Read Any Sort Of Symbolic Significance Into Them.

Limited Means Often Constitute The Charm And Force Of Primitive Painting. Extension, On The Contrary, Leads The Arts To Decadence.

We Will Never Have Repose. The Present Is Perpetual.

Truth Exists, Only Falsehood Has To Be Invented.

To Work From Nature Is To Improvise.