I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

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

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.