I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

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.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.