The truly original artist invents his own signs.

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

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.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

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