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

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.