Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

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

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.