We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

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.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.