The truly original artist invents his own signs..

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One ca….

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open..

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows ….

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone..

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone..

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by ….

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has….

A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be pr….

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to expr….

My curves are not crazy..

What I am after, above all, is expression..

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials..

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were..

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts ….

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to..

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony..

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work..

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting..

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to t….

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal….