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

A painting that is well composed is half finished..

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

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..

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..

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….

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

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..

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

Art will never be able to exist without nature..

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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..