If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope..

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love..

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it..

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites..

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it.

Time is a river without banks..

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the pai….

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in t….

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration..

No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with….

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature..

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express….

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbi….

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth..

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe..

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of ….

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors..

The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of….

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world..

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right..