There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

An artist is an explorer.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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.

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.