Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

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

Creation begins with vision.

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.