“My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.”

“The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.”

“This method of mine takes its beginnings where Cavalieri ends his Method of indivisibles…. for as his was the Geometry of indivisibles, so I have chosen to call my method the Arithmetic of infinitesimals.”

“They [the visitors in his studio, praising his work] see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method and that is all there is to it.”

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”

“The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.”

“My first pictures were done by instinct, the others with more method perhaps. Instinct which nourishes method can often be superior to a method which nourishes instinct.”

“Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.”

“My method is to find a word with a gesture.”

“Another method of escaping moral responsibility is to run with the crowd. The crowd never considers consequences; it is bent upon vindicating its principles at any cost. It is anonymous; in it the individual may not be held to account.”