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

What I am after, above all, is expression.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.