"When one crosses a landscape by automobile or express train, it becomes fragmented; it loses in descriptive value but…"

"I venture out to the great 'sujet'; but, I repeat, my painting always remains object painting; it starts around 1936 …"

"The compression of the modern picture, its variety, its breaking up of forms.. .It is certain that the evolution of t…"

"..it [painting art] has never been so truly realistic, so firmly attached to its own period as it is today. A kind of…"

"Naturally, in order to find in this break [in the visual perception] with time-honored habits a basis for a new picto…"

"..a yellow square, a red and blue avenue, an Eiffel tower with a camouflaged silhouette.. ..that would all be lit up …"

"The mural artist is concerned with bringing to life dead surfaces by the application of colour."

"From the day that the impressionists liberated painting, the modern picture set out at once the structure itself on c…"

"Contrast = dissonance, and hence a maximum expressive effect. I will take as an example a commonplace subject: the vi…"

"The Impressionists were the first [painters] to reject the absolute value of the subject and to consider its value to…"