You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Another word for creativity is courage.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

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.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.