Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.