To arrive is to be in prison.

An artist is an explorer.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.