It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

An artist is an explorer.

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

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation