The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

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

Nature engenders the science of painting

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

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.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.