With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.