I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.