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

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 paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

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.

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

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.