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

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Work cures everything.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.