The Barnes Foundation Is The Only Sane

The Essential Thing Is To Work In A State Of Mind That Approaches Prayer.

The Chief Function Of Color Should Be To Serve Expression As Well As Possible.

What I Dream Of Is An Art Of Balance.

Art Should Be Something Like A Good Armchair In Which To Rest From Physical Fatigue.

Slowly I Discovered The Secret Of My Art. It Consists Of A Meditation On Nature, On The Expression Of A Dream Which Is Always Inspired By Reality. With More Involvement And Regularity, I Learned To Push Each Study In A Certain Direction. Little By Little The Notion That Painting Is A Means Of Expression Asserted Itself, And That One Can Express The Same Thing In Several Ways. Exactitude Is Not Truth, Delacroix Liked To Say.