I am a child who is getting on.

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it