When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Creation begins with vision.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.