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

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.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.