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

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.