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

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the 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.

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.