It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself..

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another..

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedo….

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion..

Creation begins with vision..

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses t….

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish..

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres..

In love, the one who runs away is the winner..

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting..

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends..

To arrive is to be in prison..

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence..

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.].

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct..

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt glor….

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree..

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me..

Jazz is rhythm and meaning..

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model….