An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

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

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.