Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

I allow no one to touch me.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.