Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

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.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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