A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.