After A Half-century Of Hard Work And

Never Ruin A Good Painting With The Truth.

I Shan't Get Free Of My Emotion By Copying The Tree Faithfully, Or By Drawing Its Leaves One By One In The Common Language, But Only After Identifying Myself With It.

When I Eat A Tomato I Look At It The Way Anyone Else Would. But When I Paint A Tomato, Then I See It Differently.

I Am Unable To Distinguish Between The Feeling I Have For Life And My Way Of Expressing It.

An Artist Is An Explorer. He Has To Begin By Self-discovery And By Observation Of His Own Procedure. After That He Must Not Feel Under Any Constraint.