To arrive is to be in prison.

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

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

An artist is an explorer.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.