Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

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

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.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

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.