Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

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

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

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

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

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.