When I Am No Longer Controversial, I

Art Or Talent, For An Artist, Is Merely A Means Of Applying His Personal Faculties To The Ideas And The Things Of The Period In Which He Lives.

Painting Is An Essentially Concrete Art And Can Only Consist Of The Representation Of Real And Existing Things.

I Am Fifty Years Old And I Have Always Lived In Freedom; Let Me End My Life Free; When I Am Dead Let This Be Said Of Me: 'he Belonged To No School, To No Church, To No Institution, To No Academy, Least Of All To Any Regime Except The Regime Of Liberty.'

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

Fine Art Is Knowledge Made Visible.