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

How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

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.