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

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

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

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

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

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.