Mosaicist

"In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on."

"was influenced by the sounds of the ambiance .. ..was only musical, to the detriment of the volumes and the forms that I had unconsciously neglected.. .. following the greater emotional cause: the sounds."

"The time of the often criticized art without real subject and the art without object seems to be over. We are experiencing a new return to the meaningful subject, which the common people can understand"

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

"Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in this phrase: To create a harmony"