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

It is still color, it is not yet light.

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

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

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.

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.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.