What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.