I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

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.

To arrive is to be in prison.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.