Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity' - Maurice Denis

..Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.

What amazement, followed by what a revelation! In place of windows opening on nature, like the impressionists, these were surfaces which were solidly decorative, powerfully colorful, bordered with brutal strokes, partitioned.

The profoundness of our emotions comes from the sufficiency of these lines and these colors to explain themselves.. ..everything is contained in the beauty of the work.