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

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….

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

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 wall around the window does not create two worlds..

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

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself..

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….

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 ….

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

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found….

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

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

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..

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must the….

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