If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.