...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

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.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour