The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.