What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.