Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.