In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

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

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

A certain blue enters your soul

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.