"What I have created here in Italy is neither very big nor profound (in the old sense of the word), but formidable. Th…"

"You misunderstood my words when I said that Michelangelo was a stupid artist.. .Because I have drunk from another sou…"

"I exhibited three paintings at the Salon d'Automne exhibition [Paris], which is the most interesting exhibition I hav…"

"..the flat surface of a perfectly calm ocean [which] disturbs us.. ..by all the unknown that is hidden in the depth."

"To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But …"

"It is most important that we should rid art of all that it has contained of ‘recognizable material’ to date, all fami…"

"Profound statements must be drawn by the artist from the most secret recesses of his being; there no murmuring torren…"

"What I hear is valueless; only what I see is living, and when I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful."

"I remember one vivid winter’s day at Versailles. Silence and calm reigned supreme,. Everything gazed at me with myste…"

"I took a trip to Florence and Rome in October and in the spring I will probably go to Florence to live as it is the c…"