Another word for creativity is courage.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

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

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.