Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

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

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.