To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

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

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

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.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.