What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance..

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture..

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings..

How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit..

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it..

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself..

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory..

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing..

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly..

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason..

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art..

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form..

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged..

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible..

Art will never be able to exist without nature..

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole..

What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and actio….

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting..

It is still color, it is not yet light..

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. An….