To arrive is to be in prison.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.