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

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

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.

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