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

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.