The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

I allow no one to touch me.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.