I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

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

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.