An artist is an explorer.

Art is an escape from reality.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

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

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.