The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

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.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

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

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Creation begins with vision.