Fine Art Is Knowledge Made Visible.

The State Is Not Competent In Artistic Matters... When The State Leaves Us Free, It Will Have Carried Out Its Duty.

The Expression Of Beauty Is In Direct Ratio To The Power Of Conception The Artist Has Acquired.

I Hope To Live All My Life For My Art, Without Abandoning My Principles One Iota, Without . . . Having Painted As Much As You Can Cover With Your Hand, To Please Somebody Or In Order To Sell The Picture More Easily.

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

Painting Is An Essentially Concrete Art And Can Only Consist Of The Representation Of Real And Existing Things. It Is A Completely Physical Language, The Words Of Which Consist Of All Visible Objects. An Object Which Is Abstract, Not Visible, Non-existent, Is Not Within The Realm Of Painting.