“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.”

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illumination the fog that surround”

“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”

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

“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.”

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

“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946”