Another word for creativity is courage.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

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

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

To arrive is to be in prison.