What I am after, above all, is expression.

Creation begins with vision.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.