Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

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.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

To arrive is to be in prison.