When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky..

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing cha….

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky..

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back..

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience..

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done..

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of min….

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing..

An artist must not feel under any constraint..

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else..

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture..

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple..

Nothing can be accomplished without love..

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful..

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out..

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait..

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition..

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage..

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and w….

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the ….

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have ….