A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

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

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

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.