My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

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.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.