I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also