From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

To arrive is to be in prison.