When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
Work cures everything.
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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.