“The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.”

“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”

“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”

“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”

“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.”

“...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.”

“I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.”