"A chef doesn't have to always ask for approval and to ask [others] people to taste the plates that he prepares. If you must trouble yourself with the public, painting, its art, what one has to say, on…"

"I have always sought to find the truth in everything, and to express it in my art."

"All the artists who began by being hungry and cold have made good painting. Everybody, Picasso, Magritte, Rouault and myself, all began like that. The facts signify something."

"It has been my lot to be attacked by the critics, almost without exception, from the very first."

"What counts is not the object represented, but the emotion it arouses."