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

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.