"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

"I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but still I don't invent the whole of the painting; on the contrary, I find it readymade—but to be untangled—in the real world."

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."