'Here is an artist who makes paintings, not just to paint, but to set free a lyrical and dramatic force trapped within him. His work is not "atelier" speculation, the stuff of never-ending discussions about aesthetics on the part of amateurs and critics.
… this Brazilian painter spontaneously touches social meaning, which is beginning to bubble among us. In him all the forces of expression meet as if his heart held the pristineness of a world.'
Germain Bazin
Historian and Art Critic
Director of the Louvre Museum
In: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, RJ). Exposição Portinari: catálogo. Texto André Lentin et al. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1953. 51 p. il. [catálogo]
