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

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

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.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

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

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

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.