A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

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 energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

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