I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

I paint in order not to cry.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.