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My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

I have a feeling only for shadows

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.