He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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.