The truly original artist invents his own signs.

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.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

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.