“My sincere confession gives me the right to say that I have brought about insightful compositional principles directly regarding the art of painting itself; those who need to understand will understand. Beyond this—and primarily—it is to remind our general human geography, which has no sense of pleasure in life other than a refined palate, of the taste for painting; to make them love painting. I specify this general expression with the warning 'why?'; this is where I am unique.”