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.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

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

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.