On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.