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.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.