Precision is not reality

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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.

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

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