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

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

Work cures everything.

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.