Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

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

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.

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.