Even working from nature you have to compose.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more imp…

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 in…

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey