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.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

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