1. “Evidence exhausts the truth.”
2. “Poetry is to a paintinf what life is to man.”
3. “Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”
4. “To work from nature is to improvise.”
5. “There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
6. “In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.”
7. “One must not imitate what one wants to create.”
8. “The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.”
9. “Art is a wound turned into light.”
10. “Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
11. “Art upsets, science reassures.”
12. “It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.”
13. “To define a thing is to substitute the definition for thing itself.”
14. “In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.”
15. “Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conceptions of space.”
