I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always t….

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it..

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it..

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds..

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art..

A certain blue enters your soul.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions..

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave..

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been cle….

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible..

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal ex….

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expr….

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have w….

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every ….

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue..

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter..

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you..

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of t….

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expres….

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium..