Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love..

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it ….

An artist is an explorer..

What I dream of is an art of balance..

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention….

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, every….

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort..

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure..

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness..

Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive hap….

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifyin….

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

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours th….

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice..

The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs wh….

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much u….

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling..

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there..

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a ti….

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought..

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black..