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

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..

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object..

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

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

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

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory..

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself..

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

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.

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

A painting that is well composed is half finished..

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..

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color..

Art will never be able to exist without nature..

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….

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens t….

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..

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..