Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon 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.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.